Ashley Walsh

Civil Religion and the Enlightenment in England, 1707-1800

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Produktbeschreibung

This innovative book reveals how Enlightened writers in England, both lay and clerical, proclaimed public support for Christianity by transforming it into a civil religion, despite the famous claim of Jean-Jacques Rousseau that Christians professed an uncivil faith.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell and Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9781783274901
• ISBN-10: 1783274905
• Artikelnr.: 58660065

Autorenporträt

ASHLEY WALSH is Lecturer in Early Modern History at Cardiff University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Hanoverian Civil Religion and its Intellectual Resources 1:
Building Athens from Jerusalem: Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of
Shaftesbury 2: The Politics of Priestcraft: John Trenchard and Thomas
Gordon 3: The Church-State Alliance: Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke,
and William Warburton 4: The Civil Faith of Common Sense: David Hume 5: The
Legacy of Ancient Rome: Edward Gibbon and Conyers Middleton 6:
Subscription, Reform, and Dissent: Civil Religion and Enlightened Divinity
during the Late Eighteenth Century Conclusion: Hanoverian Civil Religion
and its Aftermath Bibliography